As anti-abortion protests escalate, California laws cracks down with security

As antiabortion protests escalate, new California law will crack down on harassers


That's good though. Thank you Dunlap and crew. It's ridiculous that they got away with assault, threats on doctors lives, and bombing for so long. They still have a right to protest, but they've crossed the line way too frequently and the forced birthers have shown no pity or mercy to people suffering medical emergencies, and sexual assault in other states.

 

Me too

 

A Georgia judge on Monday struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban, ruling that the ban is unconstitutional and blocking it from being enforced.

In a 26-page opinion, the Fulton county superior judge Robert McBurney ruled that the state’s abortion laws must revert to what they were before the six-week ban – known as the Life Act – was passed in 2019. The ban was blocked as long as Roe v Wade was the law of the land, but went into effect after the US supreme court overturned Roe in 2022.


Abortions are now legal in Georgia up until about 22 weeks of pregnancy.

Many women, McBurney wrote, do not even know they are pregnant at six weeks.

“For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability,” McBurney wrote. “It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could – or should – force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.”

In a footnote, McBurney added: “There is an uncomfortable and usually unspoken subtext of involuntary servitude swirling about this debate, symbolically illustrated by the composition of the legal teams in this case. It is generally men who promote and defend laws like the Life Act, the effect of which is to require only women – and, given the socio-economic and demographic evidence presented at trial, primarily poor women, which means in Georgia primarily black and brown women – to engage in compulsory labor, ie, the carrying of a pregnancy to term at the government’s behest.”

McBurney’s ruling arrives weeks after two Georgia women died after being unable to access legal abortions in the months after Roe was overturned.

Georgia judge strikes down state’s abortion ban, allowing care to resume

 

It's sad that so many have to suffer because people are so hellbent on being heartless.

 

The Cruelty Is the Point

 

I know it is.